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In 1950, Bangor
and Aroostook commissioned Magor Car Company to build 300 insulated
heated plug-door boxcars for potato service. An additional 150 cars
were ordered from Pacific Car & Foundry in 1953. The cars were
equipped with ventilators and charcoal heaters. New Haven piggybacked
an order of 100 cars with the PC&F lot and factory-decorated
its cars in the State of Maine scheme to save money on the purchase.
The cars carried potatos in the winter and paper products in the
summer.
The model is
injection molded plastic with etched brass roofwalk and brake platform.
These cars ride at the prototypically-correct height above the rails,
on friction-bearing trucks fitted with low-profile wheelsets. The
model is equipped with body-mounted Micro-Trains® #1015 couplers,
Bettendorf trucks and plastic wheels, or Micro-Trains compatible
knuckle couplers, Trainworx ASF A-3 trucks and Fox Valley metal
wheels as specified.
Operation of
this model over curved trackage of less than 10-inch radius is not
recommended.
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